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• Everyone Is Watching

  Gudenkauf, Heather,

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  "The Best Friend. The Confidant. The Senator. The Boyfriend. The Executive. Five contestants have been chosen to compete for ten million dollars on the game show One Lucky Winner. The catch? None of them knows what (or who) to expect, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Game on

  Glass, Seressia,

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  "Samara Reynolds has built a large following as a gamer under an anonymous screenname, and uses her skills as a DEIA consultant to advocate for equal representation in video games. When she posted a video critiquing the popular game…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Not Your Average Hot Guy

  a Romantic Comedy at the (possible) End of the World

  Bond, Gwenda,

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  "All Callie wanted was a quiet weekend with her best friend. She promised her mom she could handle running her family's escape room business while her mom is out of town. Instead a Satanic cult shows up, claiming that the prop spell book…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Out of Character

  Albert, Annabeth,

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  "When Milo Lionetti loses his brother's prized deck of Odyssey cards, he'll do anything to replace them--including begging for help from his ex-best friend, Jasper Quigley. Jasper's got bigger things to worry about than the boy who broke…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• 88 Names

  Ruff, Matt,

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  John Chu is a "sherpa" -- a paid guide to online role-playing games like Call to Wizardry. For a fee, he and his crew will provide you with a top-flight character equipped with the best weapons and armor, and take you dragon-slaying in the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• In a Not So Perfect World

  Alexander, Neely Tubati,

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  "A delightful Caribbean-set novel about an ambitious designer of apocalyptic video games with a strategy for (almost) everything who discovers what happens when her best-laid plans go off course"--

• The Full Moon Coffee Shop

  Mochizuki, Mai,

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  "Translated from the Japanese bestseller, this charming and magical novel, inspired by the myth of cats returning favors to those who care for them, reminds us that it's never too late to follow our stars. In Japan, cats are a symbol of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lotería

  Pelayo, Cynthia,

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  "The Mexican board game of Lotería is a game of chance--similar to bingo. However, in Lotería instead of matching up numbers on a game board, players match up images. There are 54 cards in the Lotería game, and for this short story…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Deadly Editions

  Shelton, Paige,

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  "A treasure hunt through Edinburgh gives way to a search for a villain terrorizing the city in Paige Shelton's Deadly Editions, the sixth Scottish Bookshop Mystery. Bookseller Delaney Nichols receives a mysterious cloaked visitor one…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The World of Pondside

  Stefaniak, Mary Helen,

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  "With help from Pondside Manor's quirky, twentysomething kitchen worker Foster Kresowik, wheelchair-bound resident Robert Kallman creates The World of Pondside, a video game that delights the nursing home's residents by allowing them to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Quiet Room

  Miles, Terry,

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  "After nearly winning the eleventh iteration of Rabbits, the mysterious alternate reality game so vast it uses the entire world as its canvas, Emily Connors suddenly finds herself trapped in a dimensional stream where the game does not…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Battle of the Linguist Mages

  Moore, Scotto,

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  "In modern day Los Angeles, a shadowy faction led by the Governor of California develops the arcane art of combat linguistics, planting the seeds of a future totalitarian empire in Scott Moore's Battle of the Linguist Mages. Isobel is the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All Dressed Up

  Gagnon, Jilly,

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  "A remote hotel. A murder mystery. A missing woman. Everyone has a role to play, but what's real and what's part of the game? The weekend getaway at a gorgeous hotel should have been perfect. But Becca is smarting from her husband Blake's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

  Zevin, Gabrielle,

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  On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn't heard him,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Red Screen

  Burke, Daniel,

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  "No one really dies in the Metaverse or do they? It is the near future, and the virtual realities of the Metaverse are home to millions of hard-core game addicts called Meta Junkies. Shea Britton is one of them. The top player in a fantasy…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Girlfriend on Mars

  Willis, Deborah (Deborah M.),

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  "Amber Kivinen is moving to Mars. Or at least, she will be if she wins a chance to join MarsNow. She and twenty-three reality TV contestants from around the world--including attractive Israeli soldier Adam, endearing fellow Canadian Pichu,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fast Girls

  A Novel of the 1936 Women's Olympic Team

  Hooper, Elise

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  "In the 1928 Olympics, Chicago's Betty Robinson competed as a member of the first-ever women's delegation in track and field, and was feted as America's Golden Girl-- until a nearly-fatal airplane crash threatens to end everything. Outside…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Trail of Lost Hearts

  Garvis Graves, Tracey,

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  "Thirty-four-year-old Wren Waters believes that if you pay attention, the universe will send you exactly what you need. But her worldview shatters when the universe delivers two life-altering blows she didn't see coming, and all she wants…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• That Summer in Berlin

  Cornwall, Lecia,

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  "In the summer of 1936, while the Nazis make secret plans for World War II, a courageous and daring young woman struggles to expose the lies behind the dazzling spectacle of the Berlin Olympics. German power is rising again, threatening a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Night Circus

  Morgenstern, Erin

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  Waging a fierce competition for which they have trained since childhood, circus magicians Celia and Marco unexpectedly fall in love with each other and share a fantastical romance that manifests in fateful ways.